In Key Value data stores, data is represented as a collection of key–value pairs. InfoQ spoke with Casey Rosenthal from Basho team about data modeling when using Key Value NoSQL databases.

In Key Value data stores, data is represented as a collection of key–value pairs. InfoQ spoke with Casey Rosenthal from Basho team about data modeling when using Key Value NoSQL databases.

We look at key-value storage, which promises much greater I/O efficiency and longer flash drive lifespans, but may be constrained by limited use cases and lukewarm productisation efforts.

Applications use key-value databases for everything from caching objects to sharing commonly used data among application nodes.

Over at Search Storage Forum, Jeff Layton from Intel writes that key-value storage is quickly becoming a popular storage technology that may be coming to a file system near you.

Kved implements a dictionary type data structure, using numeric keys and values, supporting a few integer types.